Difficult at times to continue droning on - but worth it all at the end. The Sea-Wolf is a psychological adventure novel by American novelist Jack London about a literary critic and other survivors of an ocean collision who come under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues them. Grimble is Scottish, so for those of us in America, the first several chapters may require a bit of doubling back to re-read passages in order to get used to the syntax, shipboard slang, confusing naval ranks and titles, as well as the occational "odd" (to us) spellings.Ī well researched and documented book - no doubt. Adding some poetic license in regard to conversations between Chochrane and superiors, shipmates and others there is a bit of the "historical drama" genre slinking around these pages. Grimble has spared no detail on the life of Admiral Chochrane. At just over 400 pages, printed in a smallish font, rest assured that Mr. If you want to get the whole story, this is your book. In fact the Admiral may be the inspiration for many swashbuckling tales of the days of sail I am led to believe. He did sail mostly in the Pacific North West with his brother, Captain Dan MacLean.Cochrane's life and exploits are thought by many to be Patrick O'Brian's model for his best-selling 'Master and Commander'. It is the vivid story of a gentleman scholar. Captain Alex MacLean, or McLean, was born in East Bay, Nova Scotia. A thrilling epic of a sea voyage and a complex novel of ideas, The Sea-Wolf is a standard-bearer of its genre. According to London himself, "much of the Sea Wolf is imaginary development, but the basis is Alexander McLean". The love element, with its absurd suppressions, and impossible proprieties, is awful." The personal character of the novel's antagonist "Wolf Larsen" was attributed to a real sailor London had known, Captain Alex MacLean. the hewing out and setting up of such a figure is enough for a man to do in one lifetime. Ambrose Bierce wrote, "The great thing-and it is among the greatest of things-is that tremendous creation, Wolf Larsen. Its first printing of forty thousand copies was immediately sold out before publication on the strength of London's previous The Call of the Wild. The book's protagonist, Humphrey van Weyden, is a literary critic who is a survivor of an ocean collision and who comes under the dominance of Wolf Larsen, the powerful and amoral sea captain who rescues him. The Sea Wolf is a 1904 psychological adventure novel by American novelist Jack London.
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